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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






2. A product - result or service generated by a process






3. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






4. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






5. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






6. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






7. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






8. Graphic display of schedule related information.






9. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






10. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






11. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






12. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






13. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






14. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






15. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






16. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






17. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






18. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






19. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






20. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






21. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






22. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






23. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






24. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






25. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






26. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






27. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






28. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






29. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






30. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






31. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






32. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






33. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






34. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






35. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






36. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






37. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






38. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






39. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






40. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






41. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






42. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






43. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






44. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






45. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






46. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






47. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






48. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






49. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






50. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs